Even in the hands of experts they can be dangerous. One of the most respected programmers at my company wrote an implementation of memory that had an off by one error when bit indexing for alignment checking.

Everything worked fine until you had 16-bit relatively aligned src and dest and happened to be targeting uncached memory.

Dave the diver

Why don’t they use Brawndo it’s got what plants crave.

One time pads aren’t really feasible at scale. Getting the pad (key) to your partner securely will involve moving it in meatspace.

If you tried to send the pad with some other encryption that becomes the weak point and defeats the pad.

You can’t reuse the pad for multiple transmissions or you are vulnerable to analysis attacks.

You can’t compress the pad and send it with remaining space of a previous pad because the pad has to be true random numbers and won’t compress well so you will always come out behind.

They are great in theory, and in practice for a few fixed short form communications in emergency situations but I don’t know of any practical way they could be used generally. Your bank isn’t going to ship you a hard drive of random numbers for you to securely look at your account.

• Windows (various versions on and off like 95, XP, 7,8,10)
• Fedora core 6
• Ubuntu 8.O4-10.04
• Fedora again I think beefy miracle
• Arch

Ahh got to wait for your current system update to finish I see. /s